The Role of Management in Providing Anti-corruption Activities of Economic Entities

Abstract

The paper investigates the anti-corruption issues in the activities of economic entities. Business faces corruption every day in cases of inspections by regulatory authorities or relevant departments of business entities, obtaining state funding or participating in various kinds of project activities with the involvement of third-party investments etc. Often, the leader himself is a participant in corruption schemes and he is the initiator of corrupt behavior among his subordinates as well. The purpose of the paper is to identify perspective directions of anti-corruption in Russia at the company level by determining the role of a leader in the context of combating corruption in the country. The authors accepted hypothesis that not only anti-corruption programs in the activities of economic entities may have a positive impact on the level of corruption. The anti-corruption role of the leader in the corporate culture is the best way to protect employees from their involvement in corruption schemes. This paper focuses on the possibility of using leader authority and its impact on the implementation of anti-corruption programs. The authors concluded that the role of the head of each division is to prevent any violations on his part and on the part of his colleagues.